Stories From Blackwood (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Stories From Blackwood As for you, George, exclaimed one of the twelve, addressing his brother-in-law, I expect I shall see you as dry, withered, and shrunken as an old eel-skin, you mere outside of a man I and he accompanied the words with a hearty slap on the shoulder. George Fortescue was leaning carelessly over the side of the yacht, laughing the loudest of any at the conver sation which had been carried on. The sudden manual salutation of his brother-in-law threw him off his bal ance, and in a moment he was overboard. They heard the heavy splash of his fall, before they could be said to have seen him fall. The yacht was proceeding swiftly along, but it was instantly stopped. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.